An Immobilization Method of Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts onto Polymer Supports
An Immobilization Method of Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts onto Polymer Supports
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200802800
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Itsuno, Shinichi
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作者:
Arakawa, Yukihiro;Haraguchi, Naoki;Itsuno, Shinichi
Asymmetric transformations by means of a chiral quaternary ammonium salt acting as the organocatalyst have been extensively studied. Since the pioneering work by a research group at Merck in 1984,[1] cinchona-alkaloid-derived quaternary ammonium salts have been widely used as chiral organocatalyst in various asymmetric reactions.[2] The enantioselective alkylation of glycinate Shiff base in the presence of an enantiopure quaternary ammonium salt is a typical asymmetric synthesis of chiral α-amino acids.[3] From the viewpoint of reaction efficiency, polymer-immobilized chiral catalysts which have been used for asymmetric reactions are of considerable interest in organic synthesis. Although numerous polymer-immobilized chiral catalysts have been developed, but so far, there have been limited reports on polymer-immobilized chiral quaternary ammonium salts.[4] First examples were reported by Chiellini and Solaro in 1977 [5] and Colonna et al. in 1978.[6] In 1981, Kobayashi and Iwai reported asymmetric catalysis by quinium salts immobilized onto polystyrene.[7] Hodge etal. also reported the quaternary ammonium salts of polymer-immobilized cinchona alkaloids [8] where the polymers were simply prepared through quaternarization of the cinchona alkaloid with partially chloromethylated cross-linked polystyrene. Najera and co-workers used the same type of polymeric cinchonaalkaloid quaternary ammonium salt for the enantioselective alkylation of N-diphenylmethylene glycine esters.[9] Cahard and co-workers have developed a similar type of polystyreneimmobilized chiral quaternary ammonium salts that have a spacer arm.[10] Furthermore, hydrocinchonidinium salts were immobilized onto Merrifield resin and used for the same alkylation reaction.[11] Poly (ethylene glycol) was also utilized as a polymer support of a chiral quaternary ammonium salt.[12–14] All of the above examples involve a covalent bond between the polymer and the chiral quaternary ammonium salt. We have found that quaternary ammonium sulfonate is quite stable and that polymers possessing sulfonate groups can immobilize quaternary ammonium cations through ionic bonding.[15] To our knowledge, this is a new type of immobilization comprising of an ionic bond between a chiral catalyst and a polymer. We have developed two methods of the ionic immobilization: the first involves the polymerization of a chiral quaternary ammonium sulfonate monomer, and the second is the immobilization of a chiral quaternary ammonium salt onto a sulfonated polymer through an ion exchange reaction. These polymeric chiral quaternary ammonium salts were successfully used as polymeric organocatalysts in the asymmetric alkylation of a glycine derivative. This is the first example of the immobilization of quaternary ammonium salt through an ionic interaction.As chiral quaternary ammonium sulfonates can be easily prepared from cinchonidine, we have prepared our styrene sulfonate monomers from this substrate (Scheme1). N-Benzylcinchonidinium chloride (1a) was treated with sodium p-styrene sulfonate (2b) in water, and subsequent extraction with dichloromethane gave the chiral quaternary ammonium monomer 3b. The chiral monomer was copolymerized with styrene and divinylbenzene under radical condition to give the corresponding polymeric chiral quaternary ammonium salt 4 aA. By using this method, any type of chiral quaternary ammonium salt can be transformed into its corresponding monomer. This method is an easier way to obtain the chiral quaternary ammonium salt polymers in comparison to the conventional covalent bonding method. By means of this …